She's crazy AND smart, who wouldn't love that?

Stellar idly tossed another book behind her adding to the growing trail of textbooks that lead into the pool area. Mathematics . . . check. She yawned and stretched her arms over her head as she did a mental checklist of the subjects. The weekend had given her a chance to get ahead on most of her assignments. Stellar picked up her Political Science book and glared at it with some boredom. She had read through this one on Friday during class . . . right? She opened it and scanned the first chapter. Yup . . .

With a growl of frustration, Stellar tossed the book over her shoulder. It was easier pretending NOT to be smart. Now she was bored. Bored bored bored! She shaded her eyes from the afternoon sun and eyed the pool in front of her. Before she came to Zeon, school had at least been fun! Getting into mischief, making the teachers want to pull their hair out, and driving the other classmates mad!

"Stellar doesn't want to die of boredom!" Stellar muttered as she idly folded a sheet of paper scribbled with all her math notes on it, "This is so lame . . ."

She tossed the sheet of paper, which was now a paper airplane, into the air. She didn't need it. She had all ready scribbled most of the answers to the math questions inside her book. She had hoped that maybe some of the students would be around the pool area. Even if it was some of the athletes doing laps. She could have at least bugged some of them to stamp her card. Sadly, there didn't seem to be any sign of other students. Maybe it was too early in the day? Ah, it was Sunday.

Well, at least she had picked a pleasant spot to study. Stellar really liked the water, Neo had taken her down to Earth once. The ocean down there was so beautiful. Up in the colonies . . . well, this school did have a pool so that was one perk of being here? Stellar had never gotten a chance to learn to swim. Maybe she'd get a chance to learn while she was attending school here.

Stellar kicked off her shoes as she wandered over to the pool's edge. Maybe she could just dangle her feet into the water . . . She dipped one foot into the water, testing it's temperature. Wow, this feels great! She giggled and splashed at the water with her foot.

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The chlorine was burning her nose and her eyes, but overall Stellar realized she was still alive. It seemed like a miracle. She wasn't dead? Stellar clung tightly to her savior as she tried to regain her composure.

"T-t-thank y-y-you," she coughed up a few mouthfuls of water before taking a few large gasping breaths.

Stellar eyed her savior for a moment. Federation student. He didn't look that much older than herself, but then again, she could be wrong. Stellar warily looked herself over and found herself to be a complete mess.

The dress Neo had bought her was soaked through and the front partially torn as though someone had tried to pull her up by the collar. She blushed and tried to cover herself. This was definitely not the Sunday she had planned.

Loran eventually surfaced and dragged himself to the far side of the pool. He held on to the edge for dear life and coughed pitifully. All that effort and someone else had pulled off the rescue. Now he was just cold and wet with nothing to show for it. His clothes were heavy with water and clung uncomfortably, making it difficult to climb out of the pool. Instead he just treaded water and looked pitiful. It seemed like every visit to Zeon ended in some sort of disaster.

Setsuna ignored all reactions to him and merely walked back to his belongings. He didn't have a towel, so he was sure his shirt would be wet if he wore it now... He shrugged. He was near the pool, anyway. Being half naked is excusable. Besides, he only wanted to wash his pants when he got back to Federation.

In response to the Federation girl, he simply lend a hand to her. "Everyone's fine." He replied blankly.

"Stellar is all right thanks to the quiet one," Stellar crossed her arms over her chest trying to cover herself, "I'm sorry to have troubled you. Are you all right?"

She looked to the other girl, it seemed she had jumped in after Stellar to save her.

"If you would like to . . . you could come with me to my dorm and I could lend you some clothing? I don't want to make you walk home soaking wet like that . . ." Stellar eyed the boy that had saved her, "I could give you a towel if you want . . ."

"I'm fine." Setsuna replied, still having his hand stretched out to the girl in the pool. His ears heard the Zeon girl's suggestion, though. He surely didn't need clothing, but a towel would be fine. Setsuna thought about it for a while. "I do not wear female clothing." He replied after about a minute. "And there is no need for a towel. You should give that offer to her instead." He made a small motion towards the other female, still floating in the water.

Loran looked absolutely miserable as he took Setsuna's hand and tried to scramble out of the pool. He wanted nothing more than to just take his wet, clingy shirt off but doing so would blow his cover, if it hadn't been blown already. He was soaked to the skin, after all.

"I'm sorry for causing you trouble. I guess I just wasn't thinking. I...I should be okay like this, really. I'll just dry off later or, um, something." He bowed his head and continued to apologize simultaneously to both of them.

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"You'll catch a cold." Setsuna insisted, still at the edge of the pool. He knows they might interject that comment back to him, but he knows he can't catch a cold. Gundam does not catch a cold.

Fate, however, wishes to disagree with this young man, so as soon as Setsuna finished his sentence, he couldn't help but sneeze. "I'm fine." He said, mostly to himself, but even he couldn't deny that he was feeling a bit warmer...